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Jellyfish age backwards : nature's secrets to longevity / Nicklas Brendborg ; translation by Dr. Elizabeth DeNoma and Nicklas Brendborg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brendborg, Nicklas, author, translator.
- Standardized Title:
- Gopler ældes baglæns. English
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Longevity--Popular works.
- Longevity.
- Developmental biology--Popular works.
- Developmental biology.
- Aging--Popular works.
- Aging.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 268 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First North American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023.
- Language Note:
- Text in English, translated from the Danish.
- Summary:
- Blending together the most cutting-edge research and stories from habitats all over the world, a molecular biologist explores what nature has to teach us about aging, revealing life spans we cannot imagine and physiological gifts that feel closer to magic than reality.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Nature's Wonders
- 1. The Record Book of Longevity
- 2. Sun, Palm Trees and a Long Life
- 3. Genes Are Overrated
- 4. The Disadvantages of Immortality
- pt. II Scientists' Discoveries
- 5. What Doesn't Kill You
- 6. Does Size Matter?
- 7. The Secrets of Easter Island
- 8. The One to Unite Them All
- 9. Infamous High School Biology
- 10. Adventures in Immortality
- 11. Zombie Cells and How to Get Rid of Them
- 12. Winding the Biological Clock
- 13. Bloody Marvellous
- 14. Microbe Struggles
- 15. Hiding in Plain Sight
- 16. Flossing for Longevity
- 17. Immune Rejuvenation
- pt. III Good Advice
- 18. Starving for Fun
- 19. An Old Custom in New Clothes
- 20. Cargo Cult Nutrition
- 21. Food for Thought
- 22. Medieval Monks to Modern Science
- 23. What Gets Measured Geft Managed
- 24. Mind Over Matter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-258) and index.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of: 9781529394016 Brendborg, Nicklas. London : Hodder Studio, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780316414586
- 0316414581
- OCLC:
- 1267750861
- Publisher Number:
- 99992849015
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